For over a century the Bonneville Salt Flats has drawn motoring enthusiasts to its vast open plains for its annual Speed Week, and for more than half a century one father-son duo has eyed a history-making run at the event. That dream has now been realized with a new land speed record being set.
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The fastest-spinning manmade object has been created in a lab at Purdue University. This microscopic rotor is made up of two silica nanoparticles stuck together to form a "dumbbell," and by hitting it with laser light the team has sent it spinning at a blistering 60 billion rpm.
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The Jaguar Vector Racing V20E has broken the British and world electric speed records for a battery-powered boat, making an average speed of 88.61 mph (142.6 km/h) over two legs of the 1-km (0.62-mi) course on Coniston Water in northern England.
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The name "Corbellati" definitely doesn't seduce the eardrum like a "Ferrari." Before teasing the could-be world's fastest car, it was better known as a family of jewelry makers and artists. The family's latest creation is much more a living creature, though – a supercar with grumbling 9.0-liter V8.
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Last week, we spent a few days walking the halls of the 2017 SEMA Show and staring in awe at some of the craziest cars, trucks, motorcycles and ... others ... on the planet. Here are our favorite cars of the show.
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It was a long time coming, but Hennessey's new Venom F5 is finally here. The Texas tuning house whipped the covers off its highly anticipated hypercar at SEMA in Las Vegas this week, revealing a mean-looking, carbon fiber body befitting the fastest production car in the word.
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If riding a regular electric bicycle can make you feel like you’ve got Lance Armstrong’s legs, this one’s gonna make you feel damn near like Superman. The Gulas Pi1S is a 38-horsepower e-bike that will let you pedal your way past freeway traffic at up to 71 mph.
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The electric Lightning LS218 remains the fastest street legal production motorcycle on the planet. But not for long. As a response to Kawasaki's track-only H2R, Lightning has made an R bike of its own. We spoke to CEO Richard Hatfield about the terrifying prospect of a bike faster than his last one.
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While the more familiar consumer drones can reach perfectly respectable speeds of 40 mph (64 km/h) plus, racing drones are another matter entirely. These rapid quadcopters are built purely for speed, and none more so than the RacerX.
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Over the past nine years we've been hearing a lot about the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC), which is ultimately intended to break the land speed record. One thing that we haven't seen, however, is the car actually moving under its own power. That's set to change on Oct. 26th.
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